Inscription of Župa Dubrovačka is a
Glagolitic
The Glagolitic script (, , ''glagolitsa'') is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. It is generally agreed to have been created in the 9th century by Saint Cyril, a monk from Thessalonica. He and his brother Saint Methodius were sent by the Byzan ...
inscription dated to the 11th century.
The inscription was found in 2007 during an archeological excavation of graves
close to the Church of
Saint George
Saint George (Greek: Γεώργιος (Geórgios), Latin: Georgius, Arabic: القديس جرجس; died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was a Christian who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to tradition he was a soldie ...
located between the villages of
Petrača and
Buići in
Župa Dubrovačka
A župa (or zhupa, županija) is a historical type of administrative division in Southeast Europe and Central Europe, that originated in medieval South Slavic culture, commonly translated as "parish", later synonymous "kotar", commonly transla ...
,
Croatia
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It is the second largest
Paleo-Slavic inscription from the earliest Glagolitic period, between the 10th and 12th century, the
Baška tablet
Baška tablet ( hr, Bašćanska ploča, ) is one of the first monuments containing an inscription in the Croatian recension of the Church Slavonic language, dating from . The inscription is written in the Glagolitic script. It was discovered in 1 ...
being the largest.
The inscription
The inscription totals 102 characters. The first 60-character part is written by Ivan, and in the second part Stjepan invokes
St. Sophia and
St. Sylvester. It reflects a vowel system composed of seven sounds: /a/, /e/, /i/, /u/, /o/, /ъ/, /ě/, and according to morphological and paleographic characteristics the inscription can be dated to the 11th century.
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Croatian Glagolitic Script
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11th century in Croatia
Croatian culture
Old Croatian inscriptions
Croatian glagolithic texts